NOT a Zombie movie

Rating: 10/10 (27 November 2005)

First off, let's make clear I really liked this movie: Great story, great actors, well-paced and some very nifty director's tricks make this a very enjoyable flick. What drives me off the wall, and at the risk of being labeled a nitpicker (which I am) is the fact that this movie gets mentioned whenever the topic turns to "good, bad, or so-so Zombie movies". There Is Not, repeat NOT A Single Zombie in 28 Days!!!! True, they LOOK like Zombies, they ACT like Zombies, they SOUND like Zombies, but they're not dead! They've all been infected with this "Rage" virus thingie. So all they want to do is kill people. Even eating is not on their to-do-lists anymore. Or washing, or going number two, for that matter(oh, the humanity..). I thought this was a brilliant idea, totally original and handily used-If the survivors just wait it out for 4 weeks (28 days again!), the maximum period of time the human body can survive without food, the Ragers will just..die! Ever see a Zombie starve to death, hmm? Well, at the end you see some poor ragers collapsed from starvation, out on the road. For me, that was one of the (many) great perks of this movie: Original Content! Let's not insult it by lumping it under the wrong header! If this movie is to be compared, it should be Cronenberg's Rabid ('77).
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